The Civil Service

In other nations, to join the civil service
requires a high level of education.

In other nations one is given a fairly
difficult examination, then ranked before
posting.

One simply doesn't reach a position because
she can wide out her leg.

One can come to work every day for twenty
years but is never promoted beyond their
level of competence.

In other countries, the Permanent Secretary
can and does run the Ministry,while the
politician appointed as Minister can posture.

Jamaica, being a kakiscracy does it a bit
differently.

The old fling down gals are shoved into
pensionable positions so that the Big Man
can marry his new young wifeypoo without
any danger one of these old tegeregs will
make trouble.

Failed politicians, guys who made big
contributions to the Party, idiot relatives
are shoved into the civil service where
they can be trusted to screw up just
about anything.

In most cases no one notices. Things
drag on in standard confusion. It is
only when 'something happens' and one
of these morons is put on public
display that the world can appreciate
that the civil service of Jamaica is
staffed by people of extremely low
intellect and ability.

If you knew that next week you would
be called to give evidence concerning
a particular matter, you would, no
doubt review all documentation, and
endeavour to remember every thing that
was said, done, by whom, where, when,
and why.

In Jamaica, the most important thing
is hairstyle. You must insure you get
a hairdresser appointment the morning
of your appearance.

In Jamaica, you must buy a new outfit
of a certain standard.

You must have your nails done. You
must select the right jewelry.

This takes up the time where one would
be refreshing their memory so that they
would not make a perfect ass hole of
themselves before the nation.

Of course, when one deals with double
digit I.Q.s, with people who believe
'how it looks' is more important than
'what it is', you can expect that
perfectly coiffed mannequin to find
dates, times, names and places not as
important as the colour of her lipstick.

Had a person of some quality been placed
in the position; a person who know the
terms of service, who was capable of
fulfilling the role, then there would be
no need for the inquiry.

Second rate attorneys wouldn't appear
so astute questioning a person who has
an I.Q. on par with their helper.

What assists the Government in getting
away with all forms of irregularity is
that the persons installed in positions
which previously required the highest
integrity and ability are so substandard
that their evidence can not be relied
upon.

The Commissioners can not come to a
judgement based on evidence so fragile
one can not be sure of its veracity.

Golding knows the caliber of persons
appointed. He knows their testimony
is worthless.

This is why he created the Commission.

The Manatt Inquiry

There are many documents missing, including
statements from those most involved.

The Commission proceeds on what it has.

The Permanent Secretary, holding herself
tightly, speaking slowly, being asked to
continue after pregnant pauses, paints
the picture those of us who know
"How IT Goes"
expected.

A remarkably weak Attorney General; of
course, she never would have been appointed
if she had not agreed to be a mindless
puppet of Golding.

No matter how many attempts have been made
to obliterate the truth,the facts remain.

For those who were unable to connect
the dots in March of 2010, nor in May,
will have them drawn in...
but they will stop
at the Attorney General.

The Permanent Secretary objected to Manatt's
representative being at a meeting.

The Solicitor General, a useful chap for Golding's
purposes, stated that the minster, Lightbourne,
wanted the Manatt representative there.

Twice.
Twice the P.S. objected.
Twice the P.S. was informed.

This was not a JLP meeting, this was a Gov of
Jamaica meeting; hence Manatt was hired by
the Government of Jamaica.
Not by the JLP.

Golding had tried everything to prevent
Dudus from being extradited, from claims of no
evidence, to inviting U.S. reps to lunch with
his wife.

As America began tightening the
screws, Golding had no choice.

To divert, he had the police invade Tivoli,
as if it were Tikrit, had a lot of people
killed.

Unnecessary of course.

But Golding wanted to 'prove' that removing Dudus
would cause trouble.

Why?

To put it simply, Bruce owes Dudus
Bruce would do all he could to protect him.
However, when it is Bruce's ass in the clamps,
he will sell his mother for spare parts.

Instead of having the capture done maturely,
so that Dudus would be enroute to NY before
anyone knew he was missing, Golding again
proves why he has more in common with
Henry Morgan than his predecessors.

When Morgan got the chance to be Governor
of Jamaica, he turned in his fellow pirates.

Golding, under pressure from the US, aware his
card house had collapsed, spilled a lot of
blood, unnecessary, to divert attention.

That they were his constituents is why it could
happen, as other M.P.s would not sit idly by and
see their voters decimated.

Which turns me back to the expensive
Commission of Inquiry...

What will the Mannatt inquiry actually prove?

It will prove Golding will sell Dorothy
Lightbourne to protect his backside.

Dottie, being a good little labourite will
take the fall.

The more intelligent Labourites will know that
Bruce lied from day one about hiring the law firm.
But they'll hold it silent.

They'll watch Dottie be resigned.

She has nothing to lose, her integrity
is already in tatters.

She will be seen as an incompetent fool who
acted on her own initiative.

The Solicitor General only 'followed orders',
the P.S. objected.

The Commission of Police has already been
replaced, Harold Brady is a non-person.

About 100 Million Dollars from now the
Commission will condemn Lightbourne, and
Bruce will give a patented blank look.

How Squatters Squat

A particular lawyer did a great deal of land
transfers.

As the majority of lawyers he held client's
money. A great deal of money.

He put this money into Century National
where he got 24% interest.

Until Century collapsed taking all that money
with it.

This lawyer treaded water a bit of time, robbing
Peter to pay Paul.

He cut up the building he owned hoping to sell
bits of it to make up the shortfall before the
wolf was at the door, but alas, the wolf was
there before he could get his finances together
and he went to prison where he died.

One section of his building was sold for 1/2
million less than he had wanted, the other
piece was rented but the business failed and
it was shortly left vacant.

His family didn't see any sense in paying the
enormous sums of Death Duty and then transfering
the property to their names as it was not all
that valuable.

So they hesitated.

After two years when it seemed nothing was
happening, squatters moved in.

The land titles have not been altered since
1958. It would be evident, if there was a
functioning agency, that the property has
been abandoned.

In real countries, abandoned property escheats
either to the Crown or the Government.

In Jamaica, it sits.
It sits until captured.

Some people strip a building pretty bare.
Others set up residence.

Often an entreprenuer claims ownership and
charges rental on property he doesn't own.

So a large lawyer's chambers is now a squatter
settlement and whatever value it might have
had ten years ago, it values nothing today.

This is just one example in central Kingston
of how 'squatters' gain access.

The interesting factor here is that this kind
of property is often sold in London Pubs to
fools who lose their life trying to gain
control of their property.

New Year's Eve

Mouth can say anything.
Political pimps can paint pictures
and Academic Idiots
quote statistics
but on the ground
is where you find reality.

I can recall years in which I had
six different parties to attend
and en route would be enticed
by other parties
sometimes winding up at a
dance I didn't know about ten
minutes before I arrived.

I can recall the music blasting,
contrasting as two sounds fought
out across a street

I can remember every other house
full of lights and people filling
the roads

In 2010 the song was 'wear what you have'
because no one really had money to buy
anything beyond food and pay utilities.

Xmas passed quietly in Jamaica.
A few carols on the radio, a
few fairy lights here and there
but so few so little one could
miss the season
because there wasn't much of a season.

New Year's Eve

No parties in earshot, the roads quiet
no gaudily dressed people milling and
moving

As midnight approached a few crackers
here and there, but nothing much
and then it was over

People neither have money nor hope.

Few people got Xmas bonuses this year.
Few companies had parties.

People do not have money; those who have
it aren't spending it.

Xmas and New Year's Eve passed quietly
on the Rock.